Social distancing and lock down are pretty much the only options left.

2% - 4% of cases age 20-44 required ICU care. Once you end up running out of ventilators ... that is not a percentage of the population that I would like to see go untreated. Last table: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...

I am pretty sure we would do the exact same thing for the flu where it not for the fact that we largely have develop some from of herd immunity to it. 0.1% mortality would still mean hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US.

Looks like 1-14 days from infections to symptoms with a peak at 5 days. https://www.who.int/news-room/...

In China there are reports that it takes 7 - 14 days from symptoms until ICU admission (for non-survivors) and 3-11 days from ICU admission to death (table 3). https://www.thelancet.com/jour...

From Italy there is data that from ICU admission to death take about 10-12 days and recovery takes even longer with 15 days. https://www.esahq.org/esa-news...

So that would be 11-39 days from infection to death with a median probably somewhere around 3 weeks.

Maybe I formulated that not clearly but I am not trying to imply his claims make any sense at all, including the one that schools only closed very late.

Btw. I was under the impression they went to new years holidays on Jan 24th (combined with measures like closing the Wuhan Metro etc).

I also love how he claims the social distancing did not work by noticing the growth peaked Feb. 5th even though schools where open while completely ignoring the massive restrictions in Hubei starting in Jan. 23th

Looking at Italy the death toll related to covid (JHU: 15362) is already 2.4% of the total of all death from all causes of the whole (!) year 2018 (633133 deaths).

If you assume their peak death toll is around 900 death per day that translates to 1.5 covid related deaths per day and 100k population. Where the 2018 average of all causes is 2.6 deaths per day and 100k population.

Spain is similar if not worse averaging 2.5 death per day and 100k population in 2018 (423636 deaths), and their peak on thursday of 950 death translates to 2.0 covid related deaths per day and 100k population.

It appears to be the largest payer in the EU: https://de.statista.com/statis...

My understanding was that this was more about reducing the number of hospitals not necessarily the number of beds, since the data showed that larger hospitals where more efficient while also having high quality of care.

It is not like the individual members just decided to block the export. That export block is the EU response: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lega...

My understanding is that these export blocks also work more like giving the government authorization to regulate the trade much more closely than actually blocking export of surplus material within the EU.

Also don't forget there are a number of patients airlifted from Italy. The latest I read was there were/are 73 critical patients evacuated from Italy to Germany and around 30 with a further 20 planned critical patients from France.

Presumably, if you can decelerate faster you can also accelerate faster. Given that you have to take all the fuel for deceleration with you but not (or at least less) the one for acceleration, I can see how having the destination help decelerate is useful ...

Or it might be that in the EU workers also spent time not working ...

Let's compare the working times [1]:
United States 1,790 hours work / year
Germany 1,371 hours work / year

And Productivity [2]:
United States $ 68.3 GDP / hour
Germany $ 65.5 GDP / hour

Not that much of a difference ... and the time off is totally worth it :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [2] http://time.com/4621185/worker...

I have not seen the movie but a bank transfer with a progress bar that takes minutes does not sound unrealistic. Banking systems are highly distributed and need a high level assurance/consistency. Not so long ago an actual (inter-bank) transfer (e.g. within Germany) would only be done overnight, hours after it has been booked internally. The progress bar could represent all the different synchronization steps ...

25 and 7. I guess that they claim that the applicants numbers count, because "[...] Asian applicants were routinely eliminated during the resume screen and telephone interview phases despite being as qualified as white applicants [...]". https://www.dol.gov/sites/defa...

Well their other two samples are 1160 and 730 applicants.

One of their claims is that from 730 "qualified" applicants for positions as QA Engineer only one Asian were hired and six non-Asian. Even though 77% of applicants were Asian.
So they do not claim that the hirings should be representative of "the population", just that this is an unlikely outcome for a discrimination free selection (actually they claim a chance of 1 in 741).